The Zwolle Herald
Match5 Sep 2026
Zwolle taken apart
0‑4 to Ajax, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Tom de Graaff
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Zwolle
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Zwolle are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Shola Shoretire runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dirk Abels in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zwolle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Nick Viergever
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nick Viergever, and the manager let it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
109% of the income goes out in wages at Zwolle
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Zwolle
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Off the pace: Olivier Aertssen
A mark of 5.21 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
In brief
- Market Zwolle and Ryan Thomas are talking past each other
- Squad International call for Ryan Thomas
- Market Zwolle put Furhgill Zeldenrust up for sale